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BBL01: design element - motifs - scotia

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BU01: angel

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

BU02: devil(s) and demons

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

BU03: human figure - head - 2

Scene Description: [cf. Font notes]

LB01: design element - motifs - moulding

Scene Description: on the coloumns of the base

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

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view of basin - underbowl - detail

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view of church exterior - south view

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Image Source: drawing in www.threeparishes.org.uk [original source not given]

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view of church interior - plan

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view of font and cover

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view of font and cover

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Image Source: illustration in the VCH [Northampton, vol. 4: 240-242 / [www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=66358] [accessed 4 June 2012]]

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view of font and cover in context

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view of font cover

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INFORMATION

FontID: 12286COL
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Columba
Church Patron Saints: St. Columba [aka Colmcille, Colomban, Columcille]
Church Location: Barn Corner, Collingtree, Northamptonshire, NN4 0NF
Country Name: England
Location: Northamptonshire, East Midlands
Directions to Site: Located just N of the M1-A508 junction, 6 km S of Northampton
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Peterborough
Historical Region: Hundred of Wymersley
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the W end, S aisle, just W of the entranceway
Century and Period: 13th century (late?) / 16th century, Medieval [altered]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Maddy Aldis-Evans, of http://maddy.aldis-evans.info, for her photographs of this font
The Victoria County History (vol. 4, 1937) notes: "The 12th-century church [...] was largely rebuilt in the latter part of the 14th century [...] The building was extensively restored in 1871–3 [...] and again in 1891 [...] The fine late-13th-century font has a circular bowl on a central column with moulded top and base, and four moulded legs, or shafts, the junctions of which with the bowl are carved with grotesque faces and vigorous animal forms." Noted in Mee (1945): "The round bowl of the font is the one the Norman priest would use, and has four carvings on its base [i.e., underbowl], representing an angel, a demon and two human faces." In Pevsner & Cherry (1973): "Font. Circular; against the underside of the bowl a king's head, a monster, a winged figure, and a quite unrecognizable motif. The suggested date is the C13." This is not a Norman font, nor are the figures 13th-century. If the carved heads and the font are all of the same date, it is a late font, perhaps 16th century (?); otherwise it could be a re-carved font. Nor are the heads as identified in Mee: the 'angel' is actually a Goya-esque winged head closer to a grotesque owl than an angel; one is a bearded long-haired man; the other two, one of which is badly damaged and appears human grotesque, while the last one is a Sun-like radiated flat and round mask; these faces are located at 90-degree angles, and exactly where the outer columns of the base fit, but they are part of the basin block; above them is a wide scotia, and the rest of the basin side is plain; the collonnettes of the base are clusters, with moulded bases; the central shaft is wider an has mouldings at top and bottom; the whole is raised on a circular lower base or plinth. A plan [source & date unknown] of the church interior shows the font marked in the south aisle, just west of the south entrance [in www.threeparishes.org.uk]. The VADS resource [www.vads.ac.uk] has a catalogue entry [ref. JLC/01/009] for a painting of this font [actually the basin only] by J.L. Carr dated September 1866 [the location of the obect is given as : 'Northamptonshire County Records Office']. The Heritage East Midlands catalogue lists a "Watercolour of font at Collingtree church" by Henry E.L. Dryden [ref. DR/25/069/004] [location: Northamptonshire Central Library]

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 52.194792, -0.902712
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 52° 11′ 41.25″ N,, 0° 54′ 9.76″ W
UTM: 30U 643346 5784777

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: round (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: round

LID INFORMATION

Date: modern?
Material: wood,
Apparatus: no
Notes: round base on which four open-work ribs at 90-degree angles, with ball finial; appears modern

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2012-06-04 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.
Mee, Arthur, The King's England: Northamptonshire, country of spires and stately homes, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1945
Pevsner, Nikolaus, Northamptonshire, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1973